[2]Westwind Road. Photo by BFD [2].
A three-alarm fire that broke out around 3 a.m. at 40 Westwind Rd. [3] left an elderly man dead and sent four residents and one firefighter to the hospital, the Boston Fire Department [4] reports. Two MBTA buses were brought in to shelter other residents until they could return to their apartments or find alternate housing.
The fire, confined to a single fourth-floor apartment, did an estimated $250,000 in damage, the department says. The cause of the fire remains under investigation; an autopsy is planned on the dead resident.
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